Community Calendar

FREE IN-STORE EVENT: Bookshop welcomes Pulitzer Prize finalist Daniel Mason (North Woods) for a reading and signing of his new novel Country People—a rollicking, lyrical year in the life of a family as they strike out into the unknown (aka Vermont), leaving all of the comforts of home behind.

Next up for The Spoken Experience: Dean (You want happy endings, read cookbooks) Young. Join this community of readers who meet up to enjoy a featured poet's work, along with the ensuing conversation. Join us in the front room of the Capitola Branch Library. Hope to see you. (Facilitated by local poets Paola Bruni, Elaine Fletcher Chapman and Jessica Cohn)

FREE IN-STORE EVENT: Santa Cruz native (and former bookseller at Bookshop Santa Cruz!) Chloe Chapin will share her debut Suitable: The Sartorial Revolution and the Fashioning of Modern Men—the surprising story of how the plain black suit became a symbol of masculinity, democracy, and modernity.“Chapin's colorful prose and eye for detail will forever change how we see the pantsuit and its role in politics." — Lindsay M. Chervinsky, author of Making the Presidency

Chapin will be in conversation with B. Modern.

Enjoy unique shopping, books, music, food and brews at the La Selva Beach Books & Brews
Summer Fair on Saturday, August 1. Come to the fair between 10 am and 4 pm at the La
Selva Beach Clubhouse and Lawn, 314 Estrella Avenue in La Selva Beach! The event will
feature arts and crafts booths, used book sale, live music, food trucks, craft beers, a prize
raffle and more!

FREE IN-STORE EVENT: Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes New York Times bestselling author Nina Simon (Mother-Daughter Murder Night) back to the store for a reading and signing of My Sister Is Going to Kill Me, another fun, family-centered whodunnit about two sisters who work together to find a killer as they raft down the rapids of the Grand Canyon.

FREE IN-STORE EVENT: Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Steve Hawk, former editor of Surfer, who will share his thrilling new novel Nearshore, a mix of literary suspense and coastal noir which follows an unlikely trio on the California coast who investigate a nuclear terrorist act.

Hawk will be in conversation with Charles Duhigg at this event.

FREE IN-STORE EVENT: Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Paula Arai (Bringing Zen Home) for a reading and signing of her new book Of Mud and Lotuses: Dreaming the Lives of Buddhist Women—a unique blend of personal reflection, creative histories, and interview-based nonfiction that vividly imagines the lives of Buddhist women over 2,500 years.

Of Mud and Lotuses illuminates the hardships, resilience, and creative ways in which Buddhist women have applied the Dharma to daily life—often in ways that history has ignored.